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Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6)


From: David Meyer <dmm () sprint net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:18:35 -0700


Even worse, multicast is truly only suitable for live applications; on-demand
content can't be realistically mcasted, and users will not settle for "the movie
starts every 15 minutes" when they've been used to live VOD with unicast.  The
only saving grace may be things like TiVo, where an intelligent agent slurps up
live mcasts in hopes that the user may want to watch it "live" later.

Really? What about DF-like technologies?

Dave


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